It's been snowing in Mallorca today (video)

It's been snowing in Mallorca today as this video uploaded to Facebook shows:

Hiring a car at the airport? Here's a few useful tips

When hiring a car, it is a good idea to check for those any dents or scratches before you drive off. However, the UK's Daily Mail reports on the new tricks of the car hire trade to empty your wallet - and some big names are mentioned. So, we will stick with honest Fernando and his little Autos de la Gala Blas for our motors in Camp de Mar!

The £42,000,000 villa

Just gone on the market is a sprawling villa complex that's perched on the apex of the hills overlooking the bay, on the right, as you look out to sea.

Valued at forty-two million pounds, you get 2 main houses, plus 1 for guests. That's 10 bedrooms and 12 bathrooms, if you're interested, and all mod-cons including infinity pool.

Some speculate it belongs to Claudia Schiffer, others to members of the the Spanish Royal Family.

Want to see more... follow this link: https://goo.gl/mReUuf

Golf Camp de Mar caught with their pipes down (the well) it has been alleged

Golf Camp de Mar has been outed by environmental group Terraferida as the culprit in a charge raised by environmental inspectors against an unnamed golf course in Andratx for using drinking water to keep their greens green.

It is alleged that the suspect golf course had an extensive irrigation system fed from an acquifer, and that it was capable of extracting up to 720 cubic metres of  water per day - that's enough drinking water for a small town of 5,000 people according to Vicenç Vidal, Minister of the Environment.

He continued that the seriousness of the offence could lead to a fine of between ten thousand euros and one million euros.

A long way down: A true story

Earlier this year, one of our team was out exploring the remoter parts of Camp de Mar and reported on the construction of a new cliff edge villa. This was being built in front of an existing villa, and adjacent to another that was being extended. Now news reaches us of a spectacular accident in that area of Carrer Gerani.

According to the media, an excavator working on one of the two sites - we're not sure which - fell 50 metres into the sea, with the operator jumping from the digger in time to save himself by landing in some pine trees on the way down. A feat not unknown to many a Hollywood action star!

You can read more here and here with photos.

A long way down is reference to the movie featuring ex-Bond actor Pierce Brosnan - a man used to jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire - that was filmed partly in Camp de Mar.

Claudia Schiffer's gardener, two pine trees, and an unhappy neighbour

Willi Weber complained that the trees disappeared from his garden in 2015

News from Mallorca's leading daily has popped up in our Daily Mail concerning Claudia Schiffer's gardener, two pine trees and a neighbour's home.

Read more here.

Buses lose their bottle

The conspicuous red and yellow buses that operate between Palma and Port Andratx (and other destinations) have had new regulations imposed upon them by the enlightened folks at the Majorca Transport Consortium.

Bottles of water, or any other liquid, are now banned.

Now anyone who has had the pleasure of being on a bus for anything up to 90 minutes in the blazing heat will tell you that this new regulation is more than daft, it is plainly dangerous.

Some years ago, a bus we were travelling on diverted off route and stopped in the middle of a back street road outside a parade of shops. The driver got up and asked if anyone wanted to get off and buy a cold drink as the temperature outside was nearly 40°. Common sense if you ask us, but the bureaucrats obviously have other ideas as they sit in their air-conditioned ivory towers.

Instagrammers of Camp de Mar in one place

Instagram is a fun and quirky way to share your life with friends through a series of pictures, and here are a couple of links to see those pictures of Camp de Mar users have posted online: by location and by name

Latest report & photos from the team now online

Our latest report on what's new in Camp de Mar is now online, along with a whole batch of new photos on Flickr.

You can read the report here...

...and see the photos here.

Camp de Mar Cat Burglar Caught

A Tunisian pensioner has been sent to jail after being convicted of robbing rooms in a Camp de Mar hotel and other establishments on New Year's Eve 2015.

The ex-Santa Ponsa resident scaled balconies to enter the bedrooms of guests who were out celebrating. He got away with cash and jewellery, some of which has been recovered by the police.